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Childhood and youth have often been the targets of moral panic rhetoric. This Byte explores a series of pressing concerns about young people: child abuse, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, child trafficking and the concept of childhood. With an appraisal of the work of the influential thinker, Geoffrey Pearson, who wrote on deviance and young people, it draws attention to the moralising within these discourses and asks how we might do things differently

1. Introduction: Children, Youth, and Modernity in the 'Everyday Urban' -- Part I: Shaping Modern Subjects -- 2. Development Discourses and Psychosocial Interventions: The Discursive Construction Of 'Risky' and 'Resilient' Childhoods and Youth -- 3. Conceptualisation of Development and Learning in Indian Early Childhood Curriculum -- 4. Mediated Childhoods: Newspapers and the Modern Malayali Child -- 5. Clean Bodies in School Uniform: Childhood and media discourses of cleanliness in Tamil Nadu, India -- 6. The Trumpet and the Drum: Music and Reclaiming the Delinquent Child -- 7. Identifying Child Labor: Revisiting State's Craft in Bombay Textile Mills (1880-1920) -- Part II: Being Modern Subjects -- 8. Examining Shifting Us-Them Binaries: The Experiences of Disabled Children in After-School Programs in Delhi -- 9. "Youth Must Keep 'Upvaluing' Themselves: Personality Development and Modern Selves in Contemporary Delhi -- 10. 'Nobody wants to be the behenji-type': Young People Managing Romance, Work and Violence in the Urban Slums of Kolkata -- 11. Producing modern subjects of change: reeducation and empowerment for migrant working children in Bangalore -- 12. Schooling, Family Life, and Modernity: Examining the 'everyday' experiences of elite adolescents in India.

In the beginning? The origins of childhood / John Clarke -- The building blocks : construction of childhood / Shirley J Pressler -- A mixed life : race, racism, and mixed heritage / Derek Kassem -- Mind games : the psychology of the child / Diahann Gallard -- Inborn or bred : the development of speech and language / Lisa Murphy -- Coming of age : childhood sexuality / John Clarke -- The nanny state? Children and the notion of risk / Andrew Kennedy -- Not seen, not heard : the child and protection / Lynne Kendal -- The parent of last resort : life as a looked-after child / Derek Kassem -- Healthy in body, healthy in? / John Harrison -- The devil wears a hoodie : the social construction of deviant identities / John Robinson -- Up against the wall : the testing regime of childhood / Terry Wrigley -- Rightfully mine! The rights of the child / Heather Montgomery -- The have-not nots : childhood and youth poverty in the UK / Diane Grant -- Brutalized childhoods : the Palestinian experience / Samir Qouta -- The death of childhood : childhood in the context of HIV/AIDS / Gabriella Torstensson -- To go or to starve : moving for a better life / Sam Punch.

Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives of children and young people and the construction of modes of childhood and youth within the British world.

Contemporary social transformations, characterised by multi-dimensional globalisation and technological change, have lent new impetus to the emergence of internationally oriented and interdisciplinary childhood and youth studies. Analysis of sharpened polarisations of chances and risks within and between generations in specific life circumstances meets up with the re-conceptualisation of childhood and youth as social constructions within the life-course. As such, insulated national discourses

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Structure of the book -- Note -- References -- PART I: Stigma -- 2. Childhood disability and clothing: (un)dressing debates -- Chapter summary -- Introduction -- Children and clothing -- Childhood disability -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. 'They should have stayed': blaming street children and disruption of the intergenerational contract -- Chapter summary -- Introduction -- Research context and methodology -- Street-living children and intergenerational contracts of responsibility -- Dirty bad-boys: why street children struggle for employment -- Relationships of reciprocity on the street -- Who is responsible for street children? -- Conclusion -- A note of acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- 4. Subverting neighbourhood normalcy and the impacts on child wellbeing in Malta -- Chapter summary -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Findings: how children's wellbeing may differ according to the neighbourhood social processes and contextual norms in relation to their parents' marital status. -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. 'Bad children': international stigmatisation of children trained to kill during war and armed conflict -- Chapter summary -- Introduction -- The images of wartime initiation -- Child soldiers -- The profile and motivations of child soldiers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Work, education and activism -- 6. Other(ed) childhoods: supplementary schools and the politics of learning -- Chapter summary -- Introduction: going for gold… -- What are supplementary schools? -- The supplementary 'other' -- The differences within… -- Conclusion: other(ed) childhoods -- References.

The discovery of childhood in early China -- The precocious child -- The aristocratic child -- Infant abandonment -- Girls -- The magical manipulation of childhood